Today’s guest on the show is Lighting Artist Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn. In this episode we talk about growing up with artists in the family, design school, pop culture, early hip-hop, street wear, cities being the coral reefs of the human population, personal mythologies, being black adjacent, including yourself, political exclusion, gentrification and God walking out of the room.
Keep in Touch with Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
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- Website: https://www.studio1thousand.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studio1thousand/
Show Notes
- Bushwick, Brooklyn
- Seattle, Washington
- Studio 1Thousand LED Art Design and Innovation
- Museum of the City of New York (A staff favorite of New York Said)
- Moiré Interference Pattern
- How to make a Moiré Interference Pattern (YouTube Video)
- The staircase at the Museum of the City of New York marble stairs- Stairs are back for sharing ideas!
- The cross pollination of ideas- too much efficiency causes the loss of organic idea generation & collaboration.
- Detail: The Brilliance Behind Cooper Joseph Studio’s Starlight by Joseph Ward
- In Focus: Starlight: A precise constellation of LEDs takes shape and becomes the focal point for the Museum of the City of New York’s lobby by Aaron Seward
- Starlight
- Chris Cooper, AIA
- Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA
- Perot Family Offices, Dallas Texas
- The experience should only be experienced with the light.
- The story of American Dream
- Do you know the family story behind Seattle’s beloved baseball mitt? by Marcie Sillman
- Tsutakawa Family Profiled on KUOW by Maiko Kobayashi
- Constantin Brâncuși Sculptor
- Brâncuși Sculpture Images
- Isamu Noguchi American-Japanese artist
- Noguchi Sculpture Images
- Yayoi Kusama Japanese Artist
- Yayoi Kusama Art Images
- Did Yayoi Kusama conduct the first gay wedding? (It is Pride Month in New York so we thought we’d share this article too)
- Bronze splinters really hurt
- So they broke a 350 piece of Japanese pottery…what had happened was…
- Wabi-sabi
- Japanese Pottery
- “Do the work, be successful for yourself aesthetically but don’t place too much value on it” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
- Be prideful of your work, but be humble.
- Art World People vs. Artists
- Jeff Staples New York Said Episode: Jeff Staple talks Streetwear Ambassador, 20 Years of Staple Design and Reed Space
- George Tsutakawa Painter, Sculptor
- Modesty counts
- Noguchi Coffee Table
- Design Within Reach Noguchi Coffee Table
- Aquemini Album – Outkast– Slump Track on YouTube (Baby Gotta Eat)
- Artspeak and artist alignment
- Neurological connections in creatives
- Asperger Syndrome
- What Is Autism?
- Dave Chapelle Gayle King Interview (Dave Chappelle on fame, leaving “Chappelle’s Show” and Netflix special)
- “I was talkin‘ to a guy… he basically said to me that comedy is a reconciliation of paradox,” Chappelle told “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King. “And I think that that was airreconcilable moment for me. That I was in this very successful place, but the emotional content of it didn’t feel anything like what I imagined success should feel like. It just didn’t feel right.”
- Comedy is the resolution of disparate concepts coming together.
- “A lot of my work is juxta-positional.” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
- Over connectedness
- The difference between basic and minimal
- Why Intellectuals Love to Take the Kardashians Seriously
- To Our Daughter Kylie Jenner Video on YouTube
- Tumblr
- The Blue Planet
- “Cities are the coral reefs of the human population.“ This is a part of my personal mythology. Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
- Sanctuary Cities
- It took a longtime to call myself a New Yorker.
- Queens, NY
- Monoculture breeds conservatism which is dangerous.
- Brooklyn, NY
- New Yorkers are not friendly, but they are helpful.
- Pigeons and Hawks in New York
- Look out for the people who are directly adjacent. It is really important to look out for people here.
- Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act
- Small town community
- Black Adjacent and Adjacent
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Do not live an undiscovered life.
- The challenging times of defining your identity.
- Ripple Bar
- Crown Heights, Brooklyn
- Learn your New York history to respect the people who live there.
- Earsnot Graffiti Artist
- alife
- Only NY
- Supreme
- G Shock
- ComplexCon
- The low barrier to entry
- Indie Bands
- Gentrification
- I Am –Nas 3rd Album
- Illmatic Full Album
- Nevermind
- Deltron 3030 Full Album
- Ready to Die The Notorious B.I.G.
- The Score
- DJ Bruce Lee
- DJ 1000
- Rakim – The 18th Letter (Always and Forever) + Lyrics Youtube Video
- Blackalicious
- Hip Hop Music In New York
- When doing research you should learn about origin sources
- The Roots
- DJ Qbert
- DJ Stretch Armstrong
- DJ Dirty Harry
- Hot Waxx Music Store on Jamaica Ave
- Beat Street Records on Fulton
- Fat Beats
- Serato
- “I love neon…it is evocative in a historical sense.” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
- Infinity Mirrors
- “Light art is intrinsically technical.” Kenzan Tsutakawa-Chinn
- The more precise more it costs.
- Ideas are expensive.
- OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Luck favors the prepared.
- Go out there and make opportunities for yourself.
- You have to go out there and get it in NY.
- Whether or not people are altruistic?
- The acceleration of the commodification of creativity & culture.
- Prioritizing commerce over everything else.
- When you bring money into the picture, God walks out the room.
- In Conversation: Quincy Jones by David Marchese in Vulture
- Monetizing creativity
- Plenty to learn from other people.
- Thank you Sophia Wallace for the connect!
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